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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Pursuing a dream: Fightertown pilot to fly with Blue Angels * Marines.mil | Capt. Jeff Kuss, a pilot with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224 has been selected to fly with the best of the best - the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron. Kuss, a 30-year-old native of Durango, Colo., will join the Blue...

Boom — They're Back * Atlantic City Weekly | That includes an array of thrilling demonstrations by the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds, which will race across the sky. There will also be parachute flag jumps by the U.S. Army Golden Knights and other world-class aerobatics teams. “The Golden Knights will do...

Snowbirds flying at Greenwood for Armed Forces Day * Digby Courier | Highlights include static displays of Greenwood, aerial displays by the Snowbirds at 2:30 p.m. and an aerial demo by a CF18 fighter at 5 p.m.. A sunset ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m.. Residents in the area are advised to expect increased aircraft...

Snowbirds soar over Camrose * Camrose Canadian | Spectators watched in awe as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds Demonstration Team landed at the Camrose Airport from Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, Aug. 1. After the airplanes touched down and parked, the rest of the day was dedicated to preparing for the...

Wings Over Sandpoint fly-in is Saturday * Coeur d'Alene Press | In fact, he expects between 75 to 125 airplanes of all makes, models and designs to fly in throughout the day. These aircraft will include very interesting examples of amphibious planes and older models, Berrey said. The plane exhibition will take...

Wings Over Wiscasset off to flying start * Wiscasset Newspaper | When Ron O'Neill was an Army medic serving in the European theater during World War II, he needed to memorize the different looks of warbirds he might see. On Friday, August 8, the Brunswick man saw some types that looked familiar. The planes were...

Great Lakes Aviators Build-off and Fly-in * cedarspringspost | The Great Lakes Aviators will hold their second annual Build-off and Fly-in on Saturday, August 16, at Paul C. Miller Airport, 9100 Vinton Avenue, in Sparta. Enjoy a hearty breakfast from 8:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tour the airport grounds and see up close...

The Canadian Lancaster Made It To England by Kevin Hong | The Canadian Lancaster has landed at RAF Coningsby ten minutes earlier than expected amid a break in a thunderstorm which caused it to detour around Lincoln at the end of its 3,700 mile journey from its base in Hamilton, Ontario....

WWII vet reflects on time as gunner in B-25 bomber * The Northwest Florida Daily News | He volunteered for gunnery school and was assigned as the top turret gunner on a six-man crew flying B-25 bombers. That meant he was the one to climb into the cramped, clear dome sticking out of the top of the plane and man the guns. The space was so...

Video: The Legacy of a Legend,The Trip of a Lifetime · Dave Budd, Photorecon.net | A few weeks ago..Amelia Rose Earhart recreated and symbolically completed her namesake’s famous around the world flight. Veteran Television and Radio reporter, Amelia Rose Earhart, completed an amazing journey around the world, in her...

Pilot back in Scotland after 59000 mile global journey * BBC News | The
pilot, a former president of the Scottish Aero Club, completed the
journey in his single-engine Piper Comanche, the first time a global
aerial circumnavigation has been staged from the east of Scotland.
Friends, family and fellow aviators joined...

Fun Fly Zone 2014 - Hal Stockman Interview · eaavideo.org | Update from the Fun Fly Zone - Hal Stockman talks about building his Rans S7. He also talks about the Oratex Fabric System and how he used it on his Rans S7.

Multiple UAVs perform autonomous formation flight * ECNmag.com | These days, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) typically fly alone with a team of ground operators controlling their activities through teleoperation or waypoint-based routing. But one aircraft can only carry so many sensors, limiting its capabilities...

Come fly with me ... Base Aero Club gets students away from it all * Robins Rev Up | Brian Shreve, Rev-Up reporter (left), and Lewayne Davis, Robins Aero Club chief flight instructor, take one of the club's Piper Warrior III aircraft for a spin above Robins Air Force Base, Ga. The club was once limited to active duty personnel and...

Remembering Henry Warren “Hank” Hartsfield, Jr. Discovery’s First Commander (1933-2014) * AirSpace | Henry “Hank” Hartsfield served as commander of the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery, now on display at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The six-day STS-41D mission began on August 30, 1984. An earlier launch attempt ended with the first on-the-pad abort just four seconds before launch. The first Discovery crew successfully deployed three communications satellites, tested a towering solar array, and used the IMAX® motion picture camera in orbit....